Somerset County Tournament seeds announced

The Ridge High School boys basketball team and the defending champion Gill St. Bernard’s School girls basketball team earned top seeds for the upcoming Somerset County Tournament, which was seeded by the coaches Wednesday night in a meeting at Immaculata.

In the boys bracket, Ridge will by vying for their first county title since 2010. Gill bounced back from a loss in that final to capture each of the past two titles and will be shooting for a three-peat from the No. 2 seed. Somerset Tech did not enter, so the boys field consists of 15 teams – one less than the girls.

It was a clean sweep last season as the Gill girls won the SCT for the third time in the past four years. Bridgewater-Raritan, which lost the 2010 and 2011 finals, received the No. 2 seed.

Games will be held on each of the next five Saturdays beginning this week with the first round.

Games are played at the site of the higher seed through the quarterfinals, with a boys and girls semifinals quadruple-header set for Feb. 16 at Montgomery and a finals doubleheader set for Feb. 23 at Bridgewater-Raritan.

Girls: 16-Bound Brook at 9-Montgomery, winner at 8-Ridge, winner at 1-Gill St. Bernard’s; 13-North Plainfield at 12-Manville, winner at 5-Rutgers Prep, winner at 4-Watchung Hills; 14-Bernards at 11-Pingry, winner at 6-Somerville, winner at 3-Franklin; 15-Mount St. Mary at 10-Hillsborough, winner at 7-Immaculata, winner at 2-Bridgewater-Raritan.

Boys: 9-Somerville at 8-Bridgewater-Raritan, winner at 1-Ridge; 13-North Plainfield at 12-Franklin, winner at 5-Watchung Hills, winner at 4-Hillsborough; 14-Pingry at 11-Bernards, winner at 6-Rutgers Prep, winner at 3-Bound Brook; 15-Manville at 10-Immaculata, winner at 7-Montgomery, winner at 2-Gill St. Bernard’s.

About Ryan Dunleavy

Ryan Dunleavy has covered Rutgers athletics for more than a decade, dating back to his days as a student at his alma mater. He became New Jersey Press Media’s Rutgers women’s basketball beat writer in 2009 and Rutgers football beat writer in 2013. Since joining the staff in 2004, the Morris County native also has covered the NFL, MLB, NBA, the Somerset Patriots and high school sports.

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